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REDDING N. WAINRIGHT (deceased), was a son of James Wainright. He was born in Monmouth County, N. J., January 2, 1811. At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade, and served four years. He followed his trade in Hightstown till 1835, when he came to Warren County, Ohio. He remained a short time and returned to New Jersey, and in the autumn of 1836, with his father, three sisters, and a brother-in-law, Abram Skillman, came to Hopkinsville, Warren County. His father died in Goshen. The year after his settlement, he purchased a farm of 130 acres in Marion Township, Clinton County. In 1843, he located on the farm where his death occurred. He was a farmer by occupation, and always followed its pursuits. September 13, 1837, he was united in marriage with Eliza Leever, a daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Leever, and a native of Clermont County, where she ·was born June 5, 1816. Of their six children, three sons and two daughters are living -Susan A., born June 13, 1838, wife of George Bontell; Caroline, born May 16, 1844, wife of Oliver Dungan, she died July 8, 1878; Mary E., born August 21, 1847, a teacher in the blind asylum at Columbus ; Charles C., born January 7, 1850; Henry C., born March 5, 1852; and Robert L., born January 2, 1856. Mr. Wain- right departed this life November 25, 1878, aged nearly sixty-eight years. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for a good many years. His political opinions were based on Republicanism. He was highly esteemed as a citizen and neighbor, and his death occasioned an irreparable loss both to the church and community.
JAMES M. WATKINS, farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of Henry and Ruth (Thomas) Watkins, was born in Harlan Township, Warren Co., Ohio, July 5, 1825. His parents came from Harrison County, Va., about 1821, and bought 400 acres of land where James was born. He remained at home till twenty-four years old, then came to Blanchester, and engaged in buying and selling stock, and butchering two years. He was married, August 31, 1854, in Blanchester, to Ruth C., daughter of Mitchell and Penelope Wright, born near Blanchester March 15, 1836. They have five children-Albert, Warren, Mitchell, Lorrin and Isabelle. After marrying, he rented part of his father-in-law's land, where he remained eighteen months. He con-
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tinucd renting till 1864, when he purchased sixty-four and one-half acres of land one and one-half miles northeast of Blanchester. In August, 1872, he bought fifty acres adjoining ; now has about ninety acres under cultivation. His wife dicd where he now lives August 27, 1868. He again married September 17, 1871, to Sarah J., widow of Gideon Sears, by whom she has one son living-Charles M. Sears.
JONAS WATKINS, M. D., physician, P. O. Blanchester, son of Wilford and Maria (Whitacre) Watkins, was born in Harlan Township, Warren County, February 17, 1831, and reared on farm till nineteen years of age, attending school about three months each winter. He then engaged in the study of medicine under Wilford Cusick, M. D., three years. In 1851, he entered the Sterling Medical College of Columbus, graduating in 1853. He practiced with his former instructor two years, and then came to Blanchester and practiced six years. He then opened a general store, and bought grain, etc .; at the end of two years he failed, loss $5,000. He then went to Clark County, near Springfield, where he practiced medicine eighteen months, and then re- turned to Blanchester, where he has again built up an extensive practice. In the fall of 1851, he was married in Jefferson Township, Clinton County, to Annie, daughter of Jesse and Mary Hockett. They have had five children, one living at present, Lyman, graduate of the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and at present attending the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati. The deceased were named as follows: Zimri, Lu. ella, Geneva and Charley. His wife died in October, 1863, and he again married in Vernon Township, Clinton County, to Mary J., daughter of William R. and Elizabeth (Darby) Austin, born in Vernon Township. Her parents were the first settlers of that township. They have had seven children, four still living-Lutie, Lizzie, Clay and Lulu. In 1873, they bought four lots on Broadway street, and the following year built a fine brick residence. They also have two lots and one and one-half acres adjoining, and one hundred and eighty-seven and one-half acres in Harlan Township, Warren County, one hundred and sixty of which are in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Watkins is a mem- ber of the Masonic and Odd Fellows Orders, of the Town Council, Director of the Building Association, President of the Cemetery Association, and himself and wife are members of the Free- Will Baptist Church.
HARRISON C. WATKINS, physician, Blanchester, son of Harrison P. and Mary (Collins) Watkins, was born in Clinton County, one mile west of Blanchester, February 26, 1838. When six months old, his parents moved one-half mile farther west into Warren County, still retaining the old homestead. They owned about 310 acres of choice land, of which his father cleared considerable during his life. He died on the old homestead November 30, 1869, in his seventy-third year. His worthy part- ner in his joys and sorrows is still living on the old homestead, with one of her daugh. ters, at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. Mr. Watkins was raised on the farm till twenty-one years of age, attending school a few months each winter. Hc then en. tered the Normal School at Lebanon; also attended the Martinsville School six years, teaching winters. The last two years he read medicine, and in October, 1864, he entered the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, where he graduated February 15, 1866, and immediately returned to the old homestead, and was married, on the 22d day of the same month, to Miss Sarah T., daughter of John W. and Martha (Trickey) Rice. They had five children, three still living-George W., Howard R. and an infant not yet named. The deceased were named Hattie and Pearle. After his marriage, Mr. W. settled in Blanchester and commenced the practice of medicine, where he has since remained, and is now enjoying quite an extensive practice. In 1875, he was commissioned by the Government Examining Surgeon for Pensions, which he still holds. He has been a member of the. Masonic lodge eighteen years, of which he has been Master several terms; also a member of the State Eclectic Medical Asso- ciation. Mr. Watkins owns a fine brick residence and four lots corner Main and Grove streets; also two fine farms of ninety acres in Harlan Township, Warren County.
JOSEPH WHITAKER, retired farmer, P. O. Blanchester, son of Oliver and Elizabeth (Kibbey) Whitaker, was born in Washington Township, this county, Febru- ary 24, 1818. His parents emigrated from New Jersey at an early period. He was
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reared on a farm. He was married, in Washington Township, in 1841, to Rebecca, daughter of William and Ann McBryant. They have five children-William O., Mary L. Ephraim K., Elizabeth A. and George N. In 1854, Mr. W. came to this township and bought 140 acres of land, nearly three miles east of Blanchester, on the State road. He now has 160} aeres of land there, 130 under cultivation. He ereeted a nice house, barns and made numerous improvements. In February, 1878, he came to Blanchester, and in 1880 he purchased a residence and' two lots extending from Main to Center street. His family are all members of the United Brethren Church.
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GEORGE ALLEN, of the firm of Allen & Son, lumber dealers, Sabina. Mr. Allen was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1818, and is a son of George Allen, who was a native of New Jersey, and settled in Ohio in the year 1815 or 1816. Our subject , was reared on the farm, which he continued on until 1841, when he went at the car- penter's trade in Ross County, Ohio, which he completed and worked at until his coming to Sabina in 1856, and since then has been engaged in his trade. In 1878, he added his lumber yard to his other business, in which he keeps building material of every description. He is a member of the Town Council, and he and his wife are very ex- emplary members of the M. E. Church. He has been twice married ; first, in 1844, to Amanda Fort, of Ross County, Ohio. Their children were eight in number, as fol- lows: Ethan, William, James, Charles, Emma, John, George and Ella. Mrs. Allen died in 1863. His second marriage was celebrated in 1866 with Phoebe Chance, of Clinton County, Ohio, and to them six children have been born, viz .: Ivy, Etta M., Tillie, Lizzie, Anna and Frank.
J. R. AMOS, salesman, Sabina, was born in Washington County, Penn., in the year 1835, and is a son of John S. and Elizabeth (Rompley) Amos, natives of Mary- land, in which they were reared and married ; afterward they removed to Pennsylvania, and, in 1849, went to Harrison County, Ohio, where they died. They were parents of four children, viz. : John M., Mary A., J. R. and N. D. Our subject was reared on the farm, and received only a common education in the district schools. In 1854, he came to Clinton County and engaged in the store business, and soon after went to Fayette County, Ohio, where he followed farming till 1861, when he came to Sabina and engaged in the grocery business, and since has been actively engaged in different lines of trade-for four years doing a carriage manufacturing business. In 1856, he was married to Sarah Pitzer, of this county, and a daughter of Michael and Mary Pitzer, by whom he has had two children-George L. and Albert E. IIe is a worthy member of the Sabina Lodge of I. O. O. F., No. 501, and of the Encampment, No. 182. He and his estimable wife are members of the P. M. Church, to which they have belonged for a quarter of a century. He is of Democratic proelivities, and has long been a member of the School Board and Council here.
A. ARNOLD, of the firm of Arnold & Curtis, grocers, Sabina. Mr. Arnold is a native of Fayette County, Ohio, in which he was born in 1836, and is a son of Elijah Arnold, who settled in the above county with his father, John Arnold, and was born in the year 1800. He made a permanent home in Fayette County on a farm, where he died in 1875. Rebecea, his wife, died in 1881, aged eighty. Eleven was the number of their children, viz .: Q. B., Martha J., Mary A., Elizabeth, Jesse, Sarah, Abi A., John, Henry B., Alpheus and our subject, who remained on the farm till of age, when he went into the grocery business in Sabina with G. F. Grubbs, with whom he did busi- ness for a while, when he sold out and returned to the farm and finally back to the store business. April 19, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Twelfth Ohio National Guards, in which he served four months, doing duty at Camp Dennison. Upon his return home, he went into the employ of Jacob Theobald, for whom he worked eighteen months. In September, 1864, he again enlisted, and this time in Company G, One Hundred and
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Eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was a part of the Twenty-third Army Corps under Gen. Schofield. He was in the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and numer- ous other smaller engagements. He was discharged at Salisbury, N. C., July 14, 1865. Upon his return home, he went into the saddlery business with G. F. Grubbs, a copartnership that existed until 1867, at which time he went to Wilmington, where he clerked for a firm one winter. Thence to Washington Court House, where he operated in dry goods for a short time. He has been twice married ; first to Artie, - daughter of Shreve Gaskell, of Fayette County. She died in June, 1868, aged twenty-two years. His second marriage was celebrated with Amanda, a daughter of Anderson Rowe, of Fayette: County, in the year 1870. In 1880, he left the farm and came to Sabina, and went into the grocery business with John Rowe, who sold to R. Curtis. He is a member of the F. & A. M. Lodge of Sabina, No. 324, Chapter of Washington, No. 103. Joined the society in 1863, and is a worthy member.
J. H. BARNS, tinware and stoves, Sabina, was born in Winchester, Va., in the year 1839 ; at the age of twelve years, he began work for himself, his father having died when he was quite young. He continued his residence in his native place until 1860, when his mother, Eliza Barns, with her children, came to and located in Wilmington, In 1862, J. H. volunteered in Company G, Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; he followed the fortunes of the regiment in all its numerous marches and counter marches, and was a participant in a number of its engagements. Hard marching and the expo- sure of army life undermined his health, and he was discharged and returned to his home in Wilmington. After his return to civil life, he came to Sabina and purchased the shop in which he now does business. He was married, in 1865, to Maria E., daughter of Elias and Eliza J. Shewalter, of Indiana, who were formerly of this county. Eight children have been born to them, seven of whom are living, viz., Anna B., Harry D., James H., Elias H., George C., Alice M. and Frederick C. and Arthur, deceased. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Sabina, to which he has been connected since 1865, and has been one of the Trustees of the Church as well as one of the Village Council. He also belongs to the I. O. O. F., subordinate and En- campment, Sabina Lodge. His mother is yet living, and resides in Springfield, Ohio ; her husband died in 1850 or 1851. With Mrs. Barns came to Ohio the following children, viz., Mary E., John H., Henrietta and Mary J.
A. BLOOM, miller, Reesville. The gentleman whose name heads this memoir was born in Greene Township, this county, in 1832, and is a son of Jacob Bloom, an old settler who resides in Greene Township. Our subject was reared to farm pursuits, a business he followed some years after becoming of age. In 1865, he went into the flouring and saw-mill business at New Antioch, where he was engaged two years, at the end of which time he came to Reesville, where he has since been engaged at milling. In 1864, he enlisted in the Forty-ninth Ohio Regiment, under Capt. Wilson, and served one month longer than his time. In 1855, he was married to Mary A. Murphy, of Clinton County, who has borne him nine children, viz., William, Nancy C., Mary B., Franklin C., Frances, Flora and Lora. Two died in infancy.
R. M. BUTLER, blacksmith, Sabina. The gentleman whose name introduces this sketch is the leading smith in the town, and one of the best workmen in the county. He was born in Virginia in the year 1845, and is a son of Daniel Butler, of Virgina. In 1877, R. M. Butler came to Sabina, and for two years thereafter plied his trade in a rented shop, where, in 1879, he built a large brick shop, in which he carries on his different branches of trade, viz., smithing, wagon and carriage-making and repair shop. In the order of Odd Fellowship, he belongs to both the subordinate and Encampment. numbered respectively 501 and 182. In 1877, he was married to Albertine Steen, of Adams County, Ohio, and daughter of John W. Steen, of the same county.
JOHN J. CLINE, retired, P. O. Sabina, is another of the old and well-known citizens of Clinton County. He was born in Virginia in 1806, and is a son of Philip and Mary Cline, natives of the same State. In 1813, they came to Clinton County and purchased 100 acres of wild land in Richland Township. This land he cleared up and improved, and lived on during his life .. They were entirely successful in their new
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home and accumulated a good property. Both were members of the Christian Church, and were exemplary people. Eight children were born to them, two of whom are liv- ing in this county, viz., Philip and John J. George resides in Fayette County, Ohio, and a daughter, Elizabeth Antrim, in Iowa. The deceased are Maria, Anna, Polly . , and an infant. Mr. C., Sr., died at the advanced age of eighty-four; his wife at the remarkable age of nearly one hundred years. ' Our subjeet was reared on the farm, and was married to Ida, the daughter of Ephraim Ditmus, February 9, 1826. She was born in New Jersey in 1806. Eight is the number of their children, all living, viz., William T., Kitty A., George, Harrison, Charles, Mary, Maria and Alex. Mr. C. owns 200 acres at this time, and has helped his children to good homes. Both he and his wife are consistent members of the Christian Church, to which they have been connected for many years.
WILLIAM T. CLINE, farmer, P. O. Sabina, is a son of John J. Cline, a pioneer whose sketch appears in this work. William T. was born in this township in the year 1826. He remained with his parents on the farm until twenty-four years of age, at which time, in 1850, he was married to Julia A., the daughter of John Mathew, an old settler in Clinton County. For a short time after his marriage, he lived in Fayette County, Ohio, and then settled where he now lives. He owns 108 acres of well-improved land, which he has brought to a high state of cultivation by a plentiful use of tile in under draining. Mr. C. is one of the prosperous and enterpris- ing farmers of the county, and his accumulations have resulted in an excellent and 'comfortable home. His family has been sorely afflicted with much sickness, which re- sulted in the death of his beloved wife and three of his children. Mrs. Cline died November 19, 1879, at the age of about forty-two years. Their children were ten in number, viz., Albert, Angeline, John A., Silas F., Mary E., Allen T., Maggie, David H., Harriet E. and Lucy J. Mr. C. is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, to which he has belonged since 1872. His deceased wife was also a member of the same church, and a very exemplary Christian lady, whose death cast a gloom of pro- found sorrow over a happy home, wherein lived an indulgent and affectionate husband and loving children.
ALEXANDER CLINE, farmer, P. O. Sabina, is a son of John J. Cline, an old and well-known citizen, whose sketch appears in this work. Our subject was born on the old home farm in this township, in the year 1845. He remained at home with his parents until twenty-three years of age, at which time he began life on his own responsi- bility. In 1869, he was married to Susan J., the daughter of George Johnson, an esteemed citizen of this township, whose sketch also appears in this work. For three years after his marriage he lived on the home farm, and in 1872 came to where he now resides. He owns fifty-three acres of good land, which is comfortably improved. He and his estimable wife are members of the Christian Church, to which they have be- longed fifteen years. To them have been born seven children, six of whom are living, viz., James E., George R., Gilbert T., Mary A., Reuben F. and Thompson Douglass ; Emma A., deceased. Mrs. Cline was born in Clinton County in the year 1848.
P. P. CLINE, of the firm of Savage & Cline, merchants, Sabina. The gentle- man whose name heads this sketch was born in Fayette County, Ohio, in the year 1850 ; his early life was passed upon the farm, the district schools affording him the advan- tages of a good practical education. He followed the fortunes of the farm until 1877, at which time he entered into a copartnership with his present partner, Mr. O. B. Sav- age in their present business. Being young men of good business qualifications and unquestionable integrity, they have aided very materially in making Sabina a trade center. Mr. Cline was united in marriage with Miss Alice Woodmansee, in the year 1872. Mr. O. B. Savage is a native of Highland County, Ohio, born in the year 1845. Unlike Mr. Cline, he was reared to mercantile pursuits ; his long experience makes him familiar with every department of the mercantile business. He carries on a store in New Lexington, Ohio, which, however, has no connection to the house in Sabina, it being under the management of Mr. Cline, while Mr. Savage resides in New Lexing- ton and attends to the business there.
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R. CURTIS, merchant, Sabina, was born in Wayne Township, this county, in 1826, and is a sou of Edward Curtis, who was a son of Edward Curtis, Sr., of Vir. ginia. Edward, Sr., was a son of Job Curtis, who was born in England, but came to and settled in Virginia, where he died. Edward, Sr., came with his family to Tennes- sce, where Edward, Jr., was born, and in 1805 he came to this State and located in this county. With him he brought wife and eight children, viz., Thomas, Mary, Fran- ces, Rachel, Job, Edward, Martha, John, James, Sarah and an infant; the three latter were born in this county. Of these eleven children, Martha alone survives. Mrs. Curtis, wife of Edward, Sr., died in 1810 ; he survived her until 1843, when he died at the age of seventy-four years. His settlement here was made in an old Indian camp and among the red men of the woods. Edward, Jr., was married to Elizabeth, the daughter of John Lyon, of this county, after which he settled in what is now Wayne Township, where he lived many years, and in 1838 came to Richland Township, in which he resided till 1851, when he removed to Delaware County, Ind., and where he died in 1860. He was a member of the Christian Church, and was one of the founders of that church in the county. His wife died in 1856. To them were born nine children, two of whom live in this county, viz., Richard and James W .; five are living in other States, to wit : Nancy and Benjamin, in Indiana ; Edward, Martha and Job, in Illinois. The subject of this sketch labored on the farm until of age, when he began "huckstering," a business he fol- lowed four years. In 1851, he began merchandising in Wayne Township, and in 1853 he came to Sabina, and entered into a partnership with Jacob Thiebold, with whom he did . business till 1858 in general merchandising. Selling his interest, he entered into a copartnership with his brother James W., with whom he did business until 1869, at which time he again became connected with Mr. Thiebold, with whom he was associated till 1876, when they closed out and organized a private bank, which they closed up two years later. In 1880, he became: half-owner in his present business with Mr. A. Arnold. Was married. in 1850, to Miss Lucinda, the daughter of Adam Plymire, by whom he had eight children, three living, viz., Charley W., Milton C. and John J .; the deceased were Francis M., George R., Letitia and two infants. Mr. Curtis has been Treasurer and Trustee of the township ten years; is one of the charter members of Sabina Masonic Lodge, No. 324; owns 265 acres of valuable land, and is one among the substantial and moneyed men of the county. Mrs. Curtis died August 9, 1880, aged fifty years. Both belong to the Methodist Protestant Church.
W. H. CUSTIS, SR., farmer, P. O. Reesville, was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in the year 1813, and is a son of Robinson and Mary Custis, natives of Virginia, who settled in Union Township, this county, in either 1821 or 1822. He purchased 100 acres of partly cleared land, which became his permanent home; he succeeded well in life, and was honored with some of the local offices of his township. Fervent in their devotion to religion, their lives were made brighter and more useful by a lifelong con- nection to the Methodist Episcopal Church. To them were born fifteen children, two of whom only at this time survive, viz., William H. and Mary Doan, nee Custis. He (Robinson) died in 1848, November 28; he was born in 1770. She was born in 1779, and departed this life November 22, 1848. They were married in 1793. Our subject passed his boyhood upon the farm, receiving only such learning as the country afforded at the time. In 1837, he was married to Mary, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Reed, who settled in this township in 1805. They came from Kentucky, in which they were married, and it is probable they were born in the same State. Upon settling in this township, hc purchased 1,000 acres of land, which he afterward lost through an imperfect title, and had to pay for the same land the second time, on which he ended his days. He and wife were members of the Christian Church, and were of that class that gives tone and solidity to the community in which they lived. Nine children were born to them, of whom Mrs. W. H. Custis alone survives. He was born in 1778, and died in 1854. She was born in 1782, and departed this life in 1863. Our subject after his marriage settled on a small farm, near where he now lives, and in the same vicinity he has since resided, and now owns 194 acres of excellent land. To them have been born five children, all living, viz., Samuel R., Cyrus E., Sarah M.,.
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Elizabeth A. and John J. Mrs. Custis was born on the place where she now lives in 1812.
CYRUS E. CUSTIS, farmer, P. O. Recsville, was born on the old home farm in this township in the year 1840, and is a son of William HI. Custis, Sr., whose sketch . appcars above. Our subject remained with his parents on the farm until of age. He had the advantage of one year's course of study at Lebanon Normal School, which furnished him with a good practical education. August 6, 1862, he volunteered and was assigned to duty in Company G, of the Seventy-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; was soon after transferred to the front and participated in all the battles of the regiment. He enlisted as private and was promoted to First Duty Sergeant the November follow- ing his enlistment ; was promoted Orderly, one month after his first promotion. Scp- tember 24, 1864, was promoted Second Lieutenant, and February 1, 1865, he was commis- sioned First Lieutenant. All through the Atlanta campaign he was in command of Com- pany G, and was a brave and efficient officer. He was honorably discharged from the service at Camp Dennison, in June, 1865. Upon his return to civil life, he resumed farming, but soon after engaged in the mercantile business, which he followed for two years, and then returned to the farmn. He and his brother, J. J. Custis,. own 200 acres of valuable, well-improved land. C. E. has been Trustee of the township three terms ; is a member of the Sabina Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. He was mar- ried in 1870 to Letitia, the daughter of Absalom Douglass, by whom he has had one child, viz., Albert R. He and his amiable wife are members of the Methodist Prot- estant Church. She was born in 1844.
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